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Further information: Native Motukarara Conservation Nursery Waihora Domain, Motukarara, natural to RD 2, Christchurch 7672 PHONE: 03 329 7846 coastal areas EMAIL: [email protected] www.doc.govt.nz/ conservationnursery www.doc.govt.nz

Grown from seed collected from coastal areas of Banks Peninsula, Christchurch and the Lyttelton basin

Published by: Department of Conservation Mahaanui/Sockburn Office PO Box 11089, Sockburn 8443 Christchurch, New Zealand Editing and design: DOC Creative Services Conservation House Wellington May 2021

This publication is produced using paper sourced from well-managed, renewable and legally logged forests. R194826 Very little of our original native coastal vegetation has Pittosporum eugenioides Fore dunes survived. Farming and urban settlement have destroyed the Pittosporum tenuifolium, black matipo, kōhūhu Austrofestuca littoralis (R/T), sand tussock natural coastal communities, and exotic species such as Pseudopanax arboreus Calystegia soldanella, wihiwihi, sand convululus marram grass, lupins and pine trees have replaced the natural Solanum laciniatum, poroporo Carex pumila, sand sedge vegetation of pīngao, and ngaio. Sophora prostrata, dwarf kōwhai Disphyma australe, horokaka, Māori ice plant Euphorbia glauca (R/T), waiuatua The native species once colonised dry and unstable soils Mid dunes and sand dunes, where they provided shelter against strong, Ficinia spiralis, pīngao, golden sand sedge Acaena novae-zelandiae salt-laden winds, and habitat for the native wildlife. monogynum, rauhuia, New Zealand linen flax Carex littoralis (R/T) Pimelea arenaria, sand daphne Carex trifida, tataki R = rare Raoulia australis Carmichaelia appressa (R), maukoro, common native broom T = threatened Zoysia minima (R) Clematis afoliata, pōhue, leafless clematis Coprosma acerosa, sand coprosma Swampy hollows Coastal forest Craspedia ‘Kaitorete’ (R/T) Apodasmia similis, oioi, jointed wire rush Austroderia richardii, toetoe Festuca novae-zelandiae, fescue tussock Bolboschoenus caldwellii, purua, sedge Coprosma crassifolia, thick-leaved coprosma Helichrysum lanceolatum, niniao Ficinia nodosa Coprosma propinqua, mingmingi astonii (T), shrubby tororaro Isolepis basilaris (R/T), turf club rush Coprosma robusta, karamū Muehlenbeckia axillaris Juncus maritimus, sea rush Cordyline australis, tī kōuka, cabbage tree Muehlenbeckia complexa, pōhuehue , marsh ribbonwood Corokia cotoneaster, korokio, corokia Muehlenbeckia ephedroides (R) Schoenoplectus pungens, three-square Discaria toumatou, tūmatakuru, matagouri Ozothamnus leptophyllus, tauhinu, golden cottonwood Selliera radicans, remuremu, a mat plant Dodonaea viscosa, akeake Pimelea prostrata, native sand daphne Griselinia littoralis, pāpāuma, broadleaf Poa cita, wī, silver tussock Hebe salicifolia, koromiko Raoulia australis Kunzea robusta, kānuka Salicornia australis, southern grasswort Leptospermum scoparium, mānuka, tea tree Samolus repens, sea primrose Macropiper excelsum, kawakawa Scleranthus uniflorus, nāereere Melicytus ramiflorus, mahoe, whiteywood Tetragonia trigyna, kōkihi, New Zealand spinach Myoporum laetum, ngaio Myrsine australis, māpou Olearia paniculata, akiraho, golden akeake tenax, harakeke, New Zealand flax

Fore dune Back dune Hardy native sand-binding plants The back dune provides colonise and stabilise dry sand shelter and stability away dunes and tolerate the salt-laden from the shore allowing a wind and spray On stable sites, broad-leaved variety of taller shrubs and Dune hollow forest may eventually establish robust herbs to form a dense, Small herbs, sedges and flax/ scrubby community harakeke huddle in damp and relatively sheltered dune hollows